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Muzak in Every Room. Back in Washington, Lady Bird set up headquarters in The Elms, a Norman mansion in Washington's Spring Valley section (previous owner: Capital Party Giver Perle Mesta). With Daughters Lynda Bird (now 19) and Lucy Baines (16) growing up, the Johnsons provided all comforts. Lady Bird piped Muzak into every room, built a heated $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard, stocked two freezers with enough prime Texas steaks for a regiment. Johnson traveled more than any other Vice President-to Asia, Scandinavia, the Benelux countries, around the world-and Lady Bird always went along...
...given thousands of parties for thousands of people, and few of the glittering names she had called "dear" and "darling" were on hand. One mourner there who didn't get much society-gossip-column attention was Dorothy Fellowes-Gordon. And to this longtime friend, the international party giver left her entire estate. It amounted to less than...
Died. Elsa Maxwell, 80, party giver to high society; of heart disease; in Manhattan (see MODERN LIVING...
...Dover, Del., State News possesses many distinctions. It may well be the only U.S. daily whose reporters cannot come in out of the rain. The roof leaks. Its editor accepts payola-and brags about it. Accept the gift and ignore the giver, he says. He also quarrels with his wife on the editorial page and takes pride in not knowing what his writers are going to say next. Simply by being there, the paper has canceled one of the city's own claims to distinction: until the State News came along, Dover was the only state capital...
Another difficulty with the record is that, like the First Family, the humor is only superficial. If you've heard it once, you've heard it enough. Only an inveterate party-giver would find permanent value...